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CAUFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDOE
the Daily Sundiai VOLUME 29" NUMBER 19 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1984
Senate committee OKs
CSU autonomy measure
By JERRY MOSHER
Staff Writer
A state constitutional amendment
that would grant independent status to
the California State Universiiy system
was passed Wednesday by the state
Senate Committee on Education, despite
opposition from student groups fearing
the amendment would supersede
students' rights legislation.
Senate Constitutional Amendment 46
was approved by a 6-3 vote — the
exact margin needed — after com­mittee
chair Gary Hart, D-Santa
Barbara, changed his vote at the last
minute.
Hart told the committee his action
was a "courtesy" to Sen. Alfred Alquist,
D-San Jose, who introduced the
amendment last month, said Vince
Montane, press officer for Alquist.
Montane said Hart changed his vote
after two committee members expected
to yote in favor of the measure failed to
attend the meeting.
The amendment will next be heard by
the Senate C ommittee on Constitutional
Amendments, "probably in the next two
weeks," Montane said. If pavscd. it
would go lo the Senate Committee on
Finance before reaching the Senate floor
for approval.
The amendment would need •
two-thirds vote in both the Senate and
Assembly to be placed before the voters
on the November 1984 ballot.
The education committee's vote
followed nearly three hours of debate in
which the California State Student
Association and the University of
California Student Lobby argued that
student imput on educational issues
wovild diminish if the CSU system
became an independent legislative body.
Under the amendment, CSU officials
would no longer need state Department
of Finance approval for many of their
budget decisions. It would also limit the
involvement of legislators in decisions
on curriculum and personnel.
"While the amendment holds a lot of
benefits for management, it lacks any
statement of students' rights," said
CSSA representative Teresa Shuff. "It
supersedes students' rights statutes on
the b(X)ks tixlay."
Shuff said statutes like the recently
pa.s.sed AB 1251. which limits the
percentage of student fees used for CSU
funding, could be wiped from the books.
Jim Lofgren, a UC Student Lobby
representative who testified against the
amendment, agreed. "I think if the CSU
gets autonomy, you will sec an increase
in student fees," he said.
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CSUN plaintiffs lukewarm toward police spy case settlement
By MICHAEL COLLINS ^
and LOREN EISLER
Sen/or Sta^f Writers /
ine Associated Students and several
Chicano stuuica profes.sors will receive
part of the $1.8 million settlement
approved Wednesday in a 5 -year-old
spying lawsuit against the Los Angeles
Police Department.
Some of the professors, however, said
they were dissatisfied with the set
tlement because they wanted the case to
go to court.
Chicano studies Professor Rodotfo
Acuna said if the suit had gone to trial
more specifics about police infiltration
of the campus would have come to
light.
. He said he is "angry" that the suit
was settled out of court but agreed to
the settlement because "when it's real
overwhelming, you have to go along
with the others."
The American Civil Liberties Union
represemed 144 plaintiffs — including
the AS, five CSUN professors and a
wide range of politically active in
dividuals and organizations — in a suit
that charged the LAPD had illegally
spied on law-abiding citizens and
groups.
CSUN's part of the suit charged that
at least three undercover officers from
the Public Disorder and intelligence
Division infiltrated campus groups
between 1972 and 1979 and reported
information to the LAPD.
PDID officers allegedly posed as
students to infiltrate meetings of
MEChA and the Black Survival Union
for future intelligence gathering
operations and is paying the plaintiffs
and their attorneys almost $2 million is
an indication of how good the ACLU
case was, he said.
Acuna said the monetary settlement
"didn't mean anything," and he would
have preferred an admission of guilt by
the police.
He said more information about
pt)lice infiltration of CSUN would have
'The evidence (against the LAPD) is overwhelming <tr the
LAPD would never have agreed to the settlement.'
Lorah
and spy on Chicano studies professors in
their classes.
ACLU attorney Paul Htjfl'man, who
coordinated the case for the plaintiffs,
said the settlement was "everything we
would have gotten after a trial" and
called it "a major victory" for the
plaintiffs.
While the settlement is not an ad
misiiion of guilt on the part of the
LAPD, the fact thai the city agreed to
•*the strictest guidelines in the country"
been revealed in court, including the
identities of CSUN students the LAPD
paid as informants and undercover
police officers involved in spying on
campus.
"The infiltrations were a violation of
sludenis rights.. .(the PDIDl used tactics
which would only be used in a
totalitarian society." Acuna said.
Because the suit is not going to trial,
there is a lot of doubt and speculation
about who the paid informants were on
this campus, he said.
Chicano studies Chair Raul Ruiz said
his department's credibility was hurt by
the police infiltration.
"People assume we were involved in
criminal activities" because department
groups and classes were the targets of
police spying. Because all the facts in
the case will not come out in court,
some people may be left with the im­pression
that members of the depart­ment
were involved in illegal activities,
he said.
AS President Michael Alcalay. one of
three AS officers to sign the settlement,
said he was in favor of the agreement.
"I'm not upset and not totally satisfied"
with the terms, he said.
While the AS has not discussed what
it plans to do with the money received
from the settlement. General Manager
Frank Lorah said he would like to see it
go to assisting students in some way,
possibly a special scholarship fund.
"The money should go toward
assistance to students in an area directly
linked to this case so we don't lose sight
of why we went to court," he said.
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AS committee tries to revise elections code
• OPINION —The cancellation of
Tuesdays AS Senate meeting
demonstrates once again their
Inability to act as responsible
leaders. Paga S
• IMAGES — Students find
different ways to spend their
leisure time on campus. Paga 7
• SPORTS — CSUNs
400-meter relay tooK first place
at USC as the men's and women's
track teams started their seasons.
PagaS
By CHRIS HOFER
Senior Staff Writer
The Associated Students Senate
Policies Committee will meet tonight as
it tries to rewrite two AS elections codes
in time for the full Senate meeting
Tuesday.
The policies committee met last
Tuesday nighl to revise the codes, but
only finished about one fourth of the
proposed revisions. Most of those
changes dealt with the role of the AS
elections director.
In meeting that goal, the policies
committee completed work on half of
one of the two codes.
The code, which is titled "Associated
Students Code on Elections Com
mittee," has 18 steps.
The policies committee concentrated
on steps six and seven, which dfPme the
director of elections' duties.
Once revised, the code must be
approved by the Senate before taking
effect.
The committee focused on who will
be the elections director's supervisor.
AS Senator Lydia Hollie, chatf of the
policies committee, argued that the AS
vice president is empowered by the AS
Constitution to oversee the elections,
and therefore has the right to supervise
the elections committee and its director.
Student Activities Coordinator
Doreen Betz disagreed.
"Traditionally, the vice president
never had any direct role in the elec
tions," Betz said.
She said that even though the vice
president oversees the election, that
person "should not step in if the
directorship is left vacant." An officer
should not get directly involved, "even
if it is in their interests," she said.
She used the example of
Homecoming, which the vice president
also oversees. Betz asked the committee,
"how would it look if the officer steps
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CAUFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDOE
the Daily Sundiai VOLUME 29" NUMBER 19 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1984
Senate committee OKs
CSU autonomy measure
By JERRY MOSHER
Staff Writer
A state constitutional amendment
that would grant independent status to
the California State Universiiy system
was passed Wednesday by the state
Senate Committee on Education, despite
opposition from student groups fearing
the amendment would supersede
students' rights legislation.
Senate Constitutional Amendment 46
was approved by a 6-3 vote — the
exact margin needed — after com­mittee
chair Gary Hart, D-Santa
Barbara, changed his vote at the last
minute.
Hart told the committee his action
was a "courtesy" to Sen. Alfred Alquist,
D-San Jose, who introduced the
amendment last month, said Vince
Montane, press officer for Alquist.
Montane said Hart changed his vote
after two committee members expected
to yote in favor of the measure failed to
attend the meeting.
The amendment will next be heard by
the Senate C ommittee on Constitutional
Amendments, "probably in the next two
weeks," Montane said. If pavscd. it
would go lo the Senate Committee on
Finance before reaching the Senate floor
for approval.
The amendment would need •
two-thirds vote in both the Senate and
Assembly to be placed before the voters
on the November 1984 ballot.
The education committee's vote
followed nearly three hours of debate in
which the California State Student
Association and the University of
California Student Lobby argued that
student imput on educational issues
wovild diminish if the CSU system
became an independent legislative body.
Under the amendment, CSU officials
would no longer need state Department
of Finance approval for many of their
budget decisions. It would also limit the
involvement of legislators in decisions
on curriculum and personnel.
"While the amendment holds a lot of
benefits for management, it lacks any
statement of students' rights," said
CSSA representative Teresa Shuff. "It
supersedes students' rights statutes on
the b(X)ks tixlay."
Shuff said statutes like the recently
pa.s.sed AB 1251. which limits the
percentage of student fees used for CSU
funding, could be wiped from the books.
Jim Lofgren, a UC Student Lobby
representative who testified against the
amendment, agreed. "I think if the CSU
gets autonomy, you will sec an increase
in student fees," he said.
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rack got lAl bant iMtt
iilppad mH'i|awt"'fliai
l i l | ^ a» 11,200.
>»fni«t In about a
ati for tha paat
tHapa during tha
oparatlon of •
MICHAEL UEDA/Daily Sundial
CSUN plaintiffs lukewarm toward police spy case settlement
By MICHAEL COLLINS ^
and LOREN EISLER
Sen/or Sta^f Writers /
ine Associated Students and several
Chicano stuuica profes.sors will receive
part of the $1.8 million settlement
approved Wednesday in a 5 -year-old
spying lawsuit against the Los Angeles
Police Department.
Some of the professors, however, said
they were dissatisfied with the set
tlement because they wanted the case to
go to court.
Chicano studies Professor Rodotfo
Acuna said if the suit had gone to trial
more specifics about police infiltration
of the campus would have come to
light.
. He said he is "angry" that the suit
was settled out of court but agreed to
the settlement because "when it's real
overwhelming, you have to go along
with the others."
The American Civil Liberties Union
represemed 144 plaintiffs — including
the AS, five CSUN professors and a
wide range of politically active in
dividuals and organizations — in a suit
that charged the LAPD had illegally
spied on law-abiding citizens and
groups.
CSUN's part of the suit charged that
at least three undercover officers from
the Public Disorder and intelligence
Division infiltrated campus groups
between 1972 and 1979 and reported
information to the LAPD.
PDID officers allegedly posed as
students to infiltrate meetings of
MEChA and the Black Survival Union
for future intelligence gathering
operations and is paying the plaintiffs
and their attorneys almost $2 million is
an indication of how good the ACLU
case was, he said.
Acuna said the monetary settlement
"didn't mean anything," and he would
have preferred an admission of guilt by
the police.
He said more information about
pt)lice infiltration of CSUN would have
'The evidence (against the LAPD) is overwhelming